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PHP to Zebra Printer

I have this Zebra ZM400 Printer connected to the network (192.168.1.50). And I am trying to push a content to this printer directly from PHP.

This is the idea and I am just stuck without any way to do this. I tried the file_put_contents('192.168.1.50', $content) but with no success.

Would appreciate if anyone could please help me in sorting out this. Thank you :-)

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Solution:

I printed using the LPR Protocol. No need to install driver or anything. The LPR Printing Class for PHP 5 can be downloaded from here:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2540-PHP-Abstraction-for-printing-documents.html

Solution

  • I'm pretty sure just pushing text content over a socket will not work at all.

    You will need to print over lpr is my guess. Install a print server like CUPS and you can send it using that...